Identify a single key supplier and a single key customer for your product, including a brief description of their product.
Chinese semiconductor manufacturer Rockchip, The RK3229 fits easily in the palm of your hand and incorporates power management, WiFi and Bluetooth radios, 512 megabytes of on-chip memory, and Rockchip's custom silicon that runs the entire solution. A single key customer for the voice assistant would be Huawei, they are branching out into devices outside of computers and smartphones. They have not developed voice assistant technologies, and although their business is booming they have face legal issues in the United States. We project these issues will be resolved and the company would be willing to form a partnership with ACME at a discounted rate.
Identify the proper type of business relationship that your company should have with the supplier and customer from Part A, above, then briefly describe the data that you would share with them.
The relationship between the supplier Rockchip should be mutually beneficial. Our product needs to be customized by the supplier to our specific needs, we need to upgrade the memory to meet our 4GB requirement and provide a modular hub for our specialized plug-and-play system. Our primary buyer would be Huawei, with a focus on integration into their home appliance products. Our product would be compatible with any device that is android capable to attract individual buyers and smaller companies looking to get into the market.
When implementing Supply Chain Management with your #1 key supplier for the first time, create a timeline that lists each of the six SCOR processes in the order that you recommend implementation; include process leader (by job title), primary contact at supplier/customer (by job title), and duration to implement.
SCOR is based on six distinct management processes: Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return, and Enable. This reference model enables users to address, improve, and communicate supply chain management practices within and between all interested parties in the extended enterprise. We would start with the planning phase, to establish the potential demand for our product. We will dedicate eight weeks to researching and establishing our target market and our potential demand, this will be carried out by our director of research. The next step would be the source, we have determined that our product materials will be sourced in China and assembled in the same factory by Rockchip. We would then focus on the delivery stage, we would primarily sell our products via an online marketplace. Huawei is located in the region and we co...
